cut from the buttocks o f the animal yet alive. A fter
ibme horns o f hydromel, he had paffed to the other fide,
where he was received with fti-11 more affeftion, ifpoflible,
by Welleta Michael, and there he began again to eat thé
raw meat with an appetite as keen as i f he had failed fo r
whole days ; he then configned us to Ayto Welleta Michael,
his friend and mine, who furnifhed us with a fervant to con*
duft us on our way, while he himfelf remained that night
at the ford among the combatants. He advifed us to advance
as far as pofiible, for all that country was deftroy-
ed by a malignant fever which laid a ll waile beyond Dela-
kus.
We left the ford at a quarter pall five in the evening, and,
purfuing our journey north, we palled the fmall town o f De-
lakus, continuing a long the hill among little fpots o f brulh-
wood and fmall fields o f corn intermixed. At h a lf pall fix
pafledthe riverAvola. At h a lf pallfeven eroded anotherjfwift-
running 'ftream, clear and lhallow, but fu ll o f llippery Hones.
At three quarters after feven we alighted at Googue, a com
fiderable village, and, as it was now n ight, we could go no"
farther ; we had already feveral times millaken our way,
and loll each other in the dark, being often alfo mired in
a fmall plain before we paflfed the lalt river ; but our
guide had heard the orders o f his mailer, andpulhed on
brilkly.
We found the people o f Googüe the molt favage and un*
hofpitable we had yet met with. Upon no account would
they fuffer us to enter their houfes, and we were obliged
to remain without, the greatell part o f the night. At lalt
they carried us to a houfe o f good appearance, b u t refufed
a b fo lu t e ly
abfolutely to give us meat for ourfelves or horfes ; and, as
we had not force, we were obliged to be content. It had
rained violently in the evening, and we were all wet. We
contented ourfelves with ligh tin g a large fire in thé
middle o f die houfe, which we kept burning all night, as
well for guard, as for drying ourfelves, thou gh we little
knew at the time that it was probably the only means o f
fav ing our lives ; for in the morning we found the whole
village lick o f the fever, and two families had died Out o f
the houfe where thefe people had put us : for my own part,
upon hearing this I was more affrighted than for Welled
Aragawi and all his robbers. Though weary and Wet, I had
flept on the ground near the fire fix whole hours ; and, tho’
really well, I could not during the day perfuade m y fe lf
there was not fame fymptom o f fever upon me. My firit
precaution was to infufe a dofè o f bark into a glafs o f aqua*
vitæ, a large horn o f which we had with u s ; we then
burnt frankincenfe and myrrh in abundance, and fumiga*
ted ourfelves, as pradtifed at Mafuah and in Arabia. Early i a
the morning we repeated our dofe o f bark and fumigation*
Whether the bark prevented the difeafe or not, the aquavit®
certainly ftrengthened the fpirits, and was a medicine to thé:
imagination.
T h e people, who faw the eagernefs and confidence w ith
w h ich we fw allowed this medicine, flocked about us ' demanding
afliftance. I confefs I was fo exafperated with the ir
treatment o f us, and efpecially that o f lodging us in the in*
fefted houfe, that I conftantly refufed them their requeft,
leaving them a prey' to their diftemper, to teach them another
time more hofpitality to itrangers.
T h.es